The 2002

World Junior Figure Skating Championships The World Junior Figure Skating Championships (''"World Juniors"'' or ''"Junior Worlds"'') is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters within a designated age range compete for ...

was held from March 3 to 10 at the

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. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles,

pair skating Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

, and

ice dancing Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...

. Due to the large number of participants, the men's and ladies' qualifying groups were split into groups A and B. The first

compulsory dance The compulsory dance (CD), now called the pattern dance, is a part of the figure skating segment of ice dance competitions in which all the competing couples perform the same standardized steps and holds to the music of a specified tempo and gen ...

was the Viennese Waltz and the second was the Quickstep.

Medals table

Results

Men

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was the first Japanese male skater to win the ISU World Junior Championships.

Kevin van der Perren Kevin van der Perren (born 6 August 1982) is a Belgian former competitive figure skater. He is the 2007 & 2009 European bronze medalist, a three-time Grand Prix medalist, and an eight-time (2000–2004, 2007, 2011, 2012) Belgian national champi ...

was the first Belgian skater ever to take a medal (silver) at an ISU World Junior Championships.

Ladies

Pairs

Ice dancing

References

External links

2002 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
* {{2001–02 in figure skating World Junior Figure Skating Championships World Junior Figure Skating Championships, 2002 F World Junior 2002